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thevigilante

A Miscellany of Other Stuff Wot I Been Up To

Mar 21, 2011 01:52

-Last Saturday I did a 300-mile round trip to Cambridge for a martial arts workshop. Since my stickfighting instructor went with me petrol came to £20 each, which is actually not too bad - I'd wager you couldn't make it there by train for much less than £50 each. This was my first time driving into Cambridge myself and now have some sympathy for my ( Read more... )

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the_stony_1 March 21 2011, 10:04:55 UTC

I call that the stage prior to having one fat, contented-looking tadpole.

thevigilante March 21 2011, 13:00:27 UTC

Haha, once they get to the free-swimming stage I will have to take a lot of them back to the pond or else they will start eating each other!

thehunter March 23 2011, 18:41:02 UTC

*fuck the subjunctive

TAKE THAT BACK YOU PHILISTINE

I love the subjunctive so much. Have you covered "ojalá" yet? Or "acabar"? UNF. Spanish grammar is amazing, seriously.

Hunter, I know you were horrified at the sound of a modern-day Holmes transplant but please do give it a chance.

Eh, I might. I don't know. It wasn't so much the modernisation that made me twitch; it was more the writers' interpretation of Sherlock's personality. My understanding is that he is basically portrayed as a sociopath, and that makes me angry.

thevigilante March 24 2011, 12:18:54 UTC

Okay, I understand the subjunctive and I like its flexibility, the main reason I said that was because I object to having to learn yet another set of verb endings and irregularities :P (fucking preterit tense) I guess I don't really have to commit them to memory right away, just be able to recognise them.

Sherlock refers to himself as a sociopath at one point. He is portrayed as difficult to deal with, which kind of makes sense to me since in order to be that good at what he does and have memorised all the shit he has, he would likely have to be some kind of autist/savant which presumably would bring its own set of personality issues. The character is pretty young (actor must be no more than early 30s) and he is revealed as having started extremely young and there's a reference to him investigating a murder when he's ten years old or something like that. The character does also have a few soft moments, though.